CNN's Kurtz: Do Conservative Commentators Want a Successful Terrorist

May 9th, 2010 1:50 PM
Howard Kurtz on Sunday actually asked if right-wing pundits are hoping for another successful terrorist attack against our nation in order to harm President Obama politically?Potentially even worse, this disgraceful question was posed to a far-left leaning blogger who certainly was going to say "Yes."Discussing the media's coverage of the Times Square car bomb attempt with his guests on CNN's "…

Jack Cafferty Bashes President Obama & Congress' 'Chutzpah' on Immigr

May 7th, 2010 8:02 PM
On Friday's Situation Room, CNN commentator Jack Cafferty returned to slamming President Obama and Congress on their inaction in enforcing the immigration laws of the United States. Cafferty also singled out Democratic Senator Charles Schumer for his "great chutzpah" in asking Arizona to delay the implementation of its new anti-illegal immigration law.The CNN personality first stated during his 5…

Glenn Beck Slams Rick Sanchez: 'The Biggest Dope Ever On Television

May 7th, 2010 3:15 PM
Glenn Beck and his radio crew had a lot of fun Friday morning at the expense of CNN's Rick Sanchez.Clearly in a jovial mood, the conservative talk radio host said, "Give me something to laugh about." His partners in crime then played a clip of Sanchez actually reading off the teleprompter in a recent "Rick's List" installment, "Up next: Ad lib. A tease. That's what it says right here."After Beck…

AP, CNN: Tea Party 'Comes Up Short' in Primaries, But No Challenger in

May 6th, 2010 5:36 PM
CNN and the Associated Press on Wednesday and Thursday touted how the tea party movement apparently didn't get motivate voters to turn out and "throw out the bums" in Republican primaries in Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio. Both outlets, however, omitted how senate candidate Rob Portman ran unopposed in his primary race in Ohio.Anchor Rick Sanchez brought on CNN national political correspondent…

CNN's Sanchez on Tuesday's Primaries: 'Turnout Was Way, Way Underwhelm

May 5th, 2010 6:42 PM
On today's Rick's List, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez brandished those reportorial skills for which he's so famous.  He and national political correspondent Jessica Yellin discussed Tuesday's primaries and the "Sarah Palin and the Tea Party influences."  Not surprisingly, they agreed they had little impact:JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Yesterday's elections showed that there was…

John King Asks Mary Landrieu If She's Going To Give Back BP's Campaign

May 5th, 2010 12:56 AM
CNN's John King on Tuesday asked Sen. Mary "Louisiana Purchase" Landrieu (D-La.) if she intends to give back all of the campaign contributions she's received from BP over the years."Of the top 20 recipients from the oil and gas industry ever in the Congress, you rank number 14th," said King. "In the 2008 campaign you were the number one Congressional candidate in terms of receipts from BP after…

CNN Revives Three-Week-Old Story to Cast Pope in Bad Light

May 4th, 2010 5:41 PM
[Update, 6:06 pm Eastern: CNN ran a slanted commercial promoting Tuchman's report on Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday afternoon, touting how then-Cardinal Ratzinger apparently "resisted" Bishop Cummins's requests to expel the abuser from the priesthood. (see video at right).] CNN's Gary Tuchman revisited a three-week-old story on a priest abuse case in California during a segment on Monday's AC360,…

CNN: 'Pressure' of Foreclosure Contributing Factor to NYC Terror Plot

May 4th, 2010 4:40 PM
On Tuesday's American Morning, CNN's Jim Acosta sympathized with the suspect in the failed Times Square terror plot, Faisal Shahzad, citing how a guest claimed that his family's house in Connecticut went into foreclosure in 2009: "One would have to imagine that that brought a lot of pressure and a lot of heartache on that family" [see video here].Acosta remarked on Shahzad's familial difficulty…

MSNBC President Phil Griffin Finally Comes Clean on Channel's Liberal

May 3rd, 2010 11:57 AM
It took a while, but MSNBC President Phil Griffin has finally admitted and embraced his cable network's hard-left slant. He told the Chicago Tribune that he will try to carve out a niche on the left, hoping some day to rival the Fox News Channel's record-setting ratings. Not so long ago, Griffin insisted that MSNBC was not "tied to ideology" -- unlike Fox, which simply could not be trusted,…

Poll Finds CNN and Fox Far More Trusted Than All Other News Outlets Co

May 3rd, 2010 10:28 AM
People on the Left squawked in January when a poll was released finding Americans felt the Fox News Network was BY FAR the most trusted name in news.On Sunday, the results of a new online survey were released by a liberal entity somewhat confirming the Public Policy Polling data NewsBusters shared with you earlier in the year.According to the "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll, when asked the question…

CNN's Roland Martin Has an Answer for Most Tea Partiers, Lefties Who D

May 1st, 2010 7:37 PM
CNN political analyst/Obama publicist Roland Martin granted an interview to Time Out Chicago, and his dominant theme was America is full of stupid people:  Roland Martin thinks you’re stupid. Well, not you, specifically, just a lot of you in general. “We got some pretty dumb people,” says the Chicago-based CNN contributor, relaxing in the network’s offices at Tribune Tower between appearances…

CNN Finally Follows Through on CAIR 'Hate Plate' Theory; Driver Now Ra

April 30th, 2010 6:51 PM
On Friday's Rick's List, CNN's Rick Sanchez revisited a story he did on Tuesday where he forwarded Islamic group CAIR's publicity stunt about a Virginia license plate that apparently contained racist messages. The Washington Post, as well, updated their story on Friday, pointing to the driver's apparent Facebook page, which contained white supremacist messages, but CNN was unable to confirm their…

RFK Jr. Attacks Bush, Oil Industry for ‘Wild West’ Drilling, Gulf

April 30th, 2010 6:07 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must be having trouble remembering who is president these days. Kennedy spent much of his April 30 CNN interview attacking the previous administration for last week's Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster and subsequent oil spill.  In an appearance on "Rick's List," Kennedy opined that as a nation "we should be moving away from our deadly addiction to oil. Not only because of…

Cafferty: Obama's Threat to Challenge Arizona's Immigration Law 'Utter

April 30th, 2010 1:48 AM
For the second time in three days CNN's Jack Cafferty went after the White House for its response to Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law."The Obama administration says it might challenge Arizona's new law in court," Cafferty said during Wednesday's "Situation Room.""They're apparently concerned the law would take away resources needed to target criminals," he continued."How utterly absurd…